director for the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division in the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, VA. She was the director of Graduate Programs of the ECE Department in 2007, before joining the leadership team of Gen 3 NSF-ERC Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center. There she led the Education Pro- gram from 2008-2011, and leads the REU-site ”Engineering the Grid.” She has served on several IEEE executive and technical committee conferences, national and international governments’ ad-hoc commit- tees for grants and projects reviews. She has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications and conference
Cybersecurity program and serves as Academic Coordinator of the M.S. in Software Engineering program at West Virginia University. She has served on program and organizing committees of many international conferences and workshops.Daniel Mackin Freeman, University of Washington Daniel Mackin Freeman is a doctoral candidate in Portland State University’s Department of Sociology and a Research Scientist at the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equity. He received his BFA in General Fine Arts with a focus on social practice from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and his MS in Sociology from Portland State University. With a background in the philosophy of art and education, Daniel’s current
16 countries over more than 100,000 pastlaboratory sessions. Learning management systems (e.g. Canvas, Moodle, Sakai, etc.) areintegrated and expected to further encourage the use of our system by individuals globally.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation’s Division Of UndergraduateEducation under Grant 2141798.References [1] Danilo Valerio. Open source software-defined radio: A survey on gnuradio and its applications. In ftw. Technical Report, 2008. [2] Matt Ettus and Brian Bloom. Universal software radio peripheral (usrp). In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Software Radio, pages 1–8. IEEE, 2003. [3] Eric Blossom. Gnu radio: Tools for exploring the radio frequency spectrum. In Linux Journal
career success. Generally, prior research confirms the benefits of work-relatedexperiential activities in students’ transition to the workforce, but more evidence is needed toexamine the contribution of WREA participation in the development of career compentencies.This paper is part of a larger study funded by NSF’s EHR Core Research Division forEngineering Education and Research. Sixty-three percent of the students surveyed in spring2021 and spring 2022 at five institutions in one U.S. state said they completed one or moreWREAs during their baccalaureate studies. With only a few significant differences by students’gender, race/ethnicity, or financial aid status, student responses indicated high value indeveloping skills related to career
set of Design Heuristics lessons for engineering studentsthat can be incorporated directly into existing undergraduate courses at varied institutions. Theproject aims to refine these pedagogical methods through co-creation of lessons with engineeringinstructors from diverse institutions and backgrounds. Our goals include: 1) raise awareness ofthe importance of teaching students to generate creative concepts; 2) educate instructors on howto teach Design Heuristics within existing engineering classes; 3) assess learning outcomes ofDesign Heuristics lessons from diverse instructors, courses, and universities; and 4) develop aneffective, easy-to-adopt pedagogy for educating students about how to generate creative ideas. Inthis paper, we present
GannonUniversity is a National Science Foundation S-STEM scholarship program [3], awarded throughthe Division of Undergraduate Education S-STEM program. The S-STEM program seeks toincrease domestic representation in STEM fields by offering tuition assistance to US citizens andother eligible permanent US residents. Scholarship recipients are required to demonstrate bothacademic merit and financial need. Scholarship amounts have varied from year to year andsometimes from student to student, but the program has been awarded approximately $1.1M inscholarship funds to date.SEECS uses a seminar-based instruction method to provide professional and personaldevelopment opportunities and practical design experience as a means to create a professionallearning
unrealistic to expect thatthe average student could complete the engineering degree in two additional years at UT. Thedelay is due to students largely having completed the common first year and many generaleducation requirements while at the community college, but still having to take the sophomore,junior and senior level course sequence in their major. Thus, the maximum of six semesters wasestablished.To jointly address academic and social support, two critical elements were designed to build acohort of students better equipped to overcome the common challenges encountered by transferstudents.Summer Bridge ProjectA summer bridge program was designed to both support initial technical learning and buildrapport internally between the year’s student
&M University. He has been a faculty member at Texas A&M since 2002, where his technical specialty is water resources engineering, planning, and management. Prior to this position, he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Georgia Tech, where he taught undergraduate courses for 7 years. His professional activities have included projects in East Africa, Central America, the Middle East, Alaska’s North Slope, and throughout the ”lower 48 states.” His current activities at Texas A&M cover a wide spectrum from K-12 outreach and recruiting to undergraduate curriculum design to retention, monitoring, and post-graduation engagement.Dr. Sherecce Fields, Texas A&M University Sherecce Fields, PhD
/instrumentation related to fluency, speechproduction, language, cognition, voice, resonance, feeding/swallowing, and auditoryhabilitation/rehabilitation [3]. In clinical practice, Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) andAudiologists (AuDs) utilize a range of technologies including audio recording/acoustic analysis,electromyography, and video imaging/analysis. Research projects for our REU includeassessment of noise levels in mobile audiology clinics, image analysis to identify features ofpediatric dysphagia from videofluoroscopy swallow studies, and assessment of surfaceelectromyography data of oropharyngeal musculature collected during swallowing events.Beyond the research, students participated in professional development sessions and
Applied Science. Page 26.662.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Enhancing Retention and Achievement of Undergraduate Engineering Students (To be presented at NSF Grantees’ Poster Session)INTRODUCTION This paper presents the impact of three key strategies that we have implemented forimproving retention and student success for engineering undergraduates, as part of a NationalScience Foundation (NSF) project funded by the Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) at the University of
undergraduate, mas- ters and doctoral engineering students and technical professionals on 3 campuses, including both online and full-immersion programs. Robin’s team helps companies recruit from a robust, top-rated technical talent pipeline that includes Universal Learners from around the world. Beyond traditional career events and virtual fairs, the Center promotes engagement in experiential-based hiring programs such as global challenges, hackathons, design-build challenges, industry-led class projects, and other ”Fulton Differ- ence” programs. Robin is passionate about broadening participation in higher education through first- generation, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and serves as the adviser for the American
dynamics in themultidisciplinary group projects, and together the students create vision statements and goals fortheir teams.Since 2013, the MAX scholarship program has also included a community engagement elementin which students share their developing technical expertise through volunteerism. For example,students have volunteered to judge projects at the regional science fair, given presentations inlower division classes in the college to highlight STEM careers, and engaged a local Girl Scoutstroop in hands-on engineering activities.In the eight years of the program, the seminar has expanded from a traditional classroom seminarto include more topic-based, free discussion time for students to learn from each other. Althoughwe have always invited
training-relatedtopics, such as scientific communication, high-quality research experiences, and professionaldevelopment workshops. Table 3 listed the WoS and REU research topics based on a descendingorder of cluster sizes. The technical topics and non-technical topics (denoted with *) were listedas two separate sections.Related topics in REU and WoS are highlighted with the same color. For example, the REUtopics of “Artificial Intelligence” and “Machine learning” are directly related to the WoSresearch topic of “Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications''. Similarly, the WoSresearch topic “Advanced Battery Technology Development” is related to the REU researchtopic “Energy Storage”. If an REU topic has multiple related WoS topics, only one
Education, 2015 Design, Development, and Implementation of the Instructional Module Development System (IMODS) Division: NSF Grantees Poster Session AbstractThere is a growing demand and interest in faculty professional development in areas such asoutcome-based education (OBE), curriculum design, and pedagogical and assessment strategies.In response to this demand, a number of universities have established teaching and learningcenters to provide institution-wide, and sometimes program specific support. A team ofresearchers is engaged in a User-Centered Design (UCD) approach to develop the InstructionalModule Development System (IMODS), a software program that facilitates course design.IMODS will
Data Record Row NumberFigure 4: Error between predicted Exam 1 and actual Exam 1 for each data record. Also plotted are errors pertaining to the removed data records (red circles) based on Cook’s distance.Preliminary Findings and DiscussionAs mentioned earlier, we analyzed the data in two different ways. The first analysis pertains tothe division of the entire population into four quantiles, lower (Q1), median (Q2), upper (Q3),and topmost (Q4) as per students’ average MAI survey scores. Tables 2-3 and Fig. 1 are relevantto this analysis. Referring to Table 3, the students in the two lower quantiles (Q1 and Q2)performed almost identically in terms of their Exam 1 grades. These two quantiles include about51% (92 out of 180 = 51%) of the
Provost for Academic Affairs and a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology at The University of Connecticut. She holds the Letitia N. Morgan Chair and is well known for her work on academically talented students. She was Principal Investigator for the Na- tional Research Center on the Gifted and Talented for 20 years and has authored or co-authored over 250 articles, books, book chapters, and technical reports. Her administrative responsibilities include all aca- demic programs as well as Honors and Enrichment, Student Success, Career Development, Institutional Research and Analysis, Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Summer Programs.Dr. Joseph S. Renzulli, University of Connecticut
Paper ID #22016Professional Engineering Pathways Study: The Value of a Community ofPractice to Stimulate Use of Research Findings that Inform PracticeDr. Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Ruth A. Streveler is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Dr. Streveler has been the Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator of ten grants funded by the US National Science Foundation. She has published articles in the Journal of Engineering Education and the International Journal of Engineering Education and has contributed to the
Results of Physics Education Research', UniServe Science News, 13Powlik, James J. and Norman L. Fortenberry (2001), 'Putting Education in the Picture', Journal of SMET Education: Innovations and Research, 2 (3-4), 3-10.Prince, Michael, M. Vigeant, and Katharyn Nottis (2009), 'A preliminary study on the effectiveness of inquiry-based activities for addressing misconceptions of undergraduate engineering students', Education for Chemical Engineers, 4 (2), 29-41.Prince, Michael, Margot Vigeant, and Katharyn Nottis (2010a), 'Assessing misconceptions of undergraduate engineering students in the thermal sciences', International Journal of Engineering Education, 26 In press.Prince, Michael, Margot Vigeant, and Katharyn
, engineering programs can producegraduates who are not only technically proficient but also socially responsible, ready to lead theway in achieving a sustainable future. [1-3]. Important steps in weaving the sustainabledevelopment into engineering technology education are curriculum integration, project-basedlearning, and capstone design projects, supported by research, and institutional commitment.Curricular Integration forms a foundational element in aligning engineering and engineeringtechnology education with the global trends in sustainable development. This involves a strategicinfusion of Sustainable Development Goals into the curriculum and promoting interdisciplinarylearning to ensure that graduates are not only proficient in their technical
subjects that introduce more active first-persondecision making into the curriculum. Educational games provide a unique and social learningenvironment that can be engaging and interactive for some learners, allowing players to learnthrough exploration and discovery [3]. Drawing on the contemporary learning theory of situatedlearning [1], [2], such playful learning may aid instructors in creating assignments that enablestudents to break free of the typical student mindset of finding the “right” answer and engage inauthentic consideration of how they might act ethically or make trade-offs in ethical goals.Undergraduate engineering students need to begin to develop a sense of the complexity of theircareers that includes social and interpersonal
uses the Avaloninterface [1] to connect its IP cores. We construct an FPro processor module with a Nios II coreand 128 KB on-chip memory. Using the FPGA’s internal memory simplifies the design andmakes the processor module more portable. The 128 KB RAM is large enough to accommodatemost simple embedded applications. A custom FPro bridge translates the Avalon signals to theFPro bus signals. The FPro system is implemented and verified on two entry-level prototypingboards: DE0-CV, which contains a Cyclone 5 device, and DE10-Lite, which contains a MAX10device [2,17]. The DE10-Lite board is shown in Figure 3(a). It contains an Arduino-like header,as indicated by the green outline. After instantiating proper MMIO IP cores, the board can beconfigured
disciplines, supportnetworksIntroduction In principle, the policies of the United States federal and various state governments havealways supported educating the population through a meritocracy [1], [2]. Upward mobility in USculture is held-out as a promise to all citizens, but the practical barriers for low socio-economicstatus (SES) students are significant [3], [4]. Status as a first generation to college or a racial orethnic minority compounds the difficulties faced by these low SES students [5], [6]. None-the-less,a significant enough number of these unlikely students manage to succeed in attaining collegiateSTEM degrees that as a group, they have been christened “Rising Scholars” [7], [8]. In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF
Paper ID #32647Lessons Learned: How Our Agile Department Survived the COVID-19 PivotDr. Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego Diana A. Chen is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. She earned her BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, and MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from Clemson University. In collaboration with colleagues, Chen is designing a new engineering curriculum to educate changemakers who understand that engineering is an inherently socio-technical activity. Her scholarly interests include engineering education that contextualizes engineering sciences and
metacognitive and self-directed learning skills and apply them in the context of real-world problem solving.Metacognition and Self-Directed Learning in EngineeringMetacognition, originally referred to as “knowledge and cognition about cognitive phenomena”[3], is a higher-order thinking skill and provides the key to developing life-long learning skillsnecessary for ABET and for an effective engineering work career. Metacognition is generallyrecognized as having both declarative and procedural components. The declarative aspect ofmetacognition is made up of a person’s knowledge about one’s self as a learner while theprocedural knowledge is the ability to monitor and control one’s learning [4], [5].Self-directed learning is defined by Knowles [6] as "a
, enabling novice designersto access and apply these heuristics. They leverage established patterns to inspire idea generation,encouraging consideration of technical, contextual, and stakeholder-related facets in design concepts.Research has evaluated the impact of these cards across expertise levels, from high school students topractitioners, demonstrating their efficacy in fostering more diverse and numerous ideas, achievable eventhrough brief training sessions. Additionally, users find them accessible and beneficial in their ideageneration processes [9], [20], [21], [22].Engineering Design in K-12The next generation science standards or NGSS, which include an emphasis on science and engineeringpractices, have led to an increased interest and use
interpretations.The course then explores topics in Materials Science, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, andintroduces technical drawing in AutoCAD, which was chosen as our CAD tool over Solidworksbecause students can get a free 3-year license for AutoCAD. Midway through the semester, abridge competition is held and the students work on a Student Educational Plan that projectstheir coursework all the way through graduating with the Bachelors of Science degree. Finally,the course finishes up in Electrical and Computer Engineering with topics in electronics and testequipment, sensors and measuring physical phenomena, microcontroller programming and data Page
education. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in col- laboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International Division Page 26.1160.1 of the American Society for Engineering Education and in the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institution (LACCEI) as Vice-President for Meetings and in the International Federation of Engineering education Societies (IFEES) as VP for the
. He received the 2002 ASEE New England Section Teacher of Year Award, 2004 ASEE New England Section Outstanding Leader Award, 2006 ASEE Mechanics Division James L. Meriam Service Award, and 2010 ASEE Midwest Section Outstanding Service Award. Rencis is a fellow of ASEE and ASME. He received a B.S. from Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1980, a M.S. from Northwestern University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1985. V-mail: 931-372-3832; Email: jjrencis@tntech.edu.Prof. Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design Kristin L. Wood is currently a Professor, Head of Pillar, and co-Director of the International Design Center (IDC) at Singapore University of Technology and
beexplored?” in Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education AnnualConference and Exposition, Minorities in Engineering Division, 2018.[7] R. Dupont and N. Rodenborg, “S-STEM lessons learned: Supporting community collegetransfer pathways and access to high impact practices during transfer transition,” in 2020 ASEEAnnual Conference, On-line, 2020. doi: 10.18260/1-2--35172[8] A. Ilumoka, I. Milanovic, and N. Grant, “An effective industry-based mentoring approach forthe recruitment of women and minorities in engineering,” Journal of STEM Education:Innovations and Research, vol. 18, no. 3, 2017.[9] B. Bilgin et al., “Looking ahead: Structure of an industry mentorship program forundergraduate engineering students.” Advances in Engineering
Institute of Technology. Her research areas include technical commu- nication, assessment, accreditation, and the development of change management strategies for faculty and staff. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of En- gineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, among others. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019EAGER: Barriers to Participation in Intensive Professional Development OpportunitiesAbstractThe Rising Engineering Education Faculty Experience program (REEFE) is a professionaldevelopment program that connects graduate students in engineering education with